"I think I can say this now, because it's not going to hurt anybody's feelings, and it's the truth," Vick tells me a few weeks after the commencement ceremony. "I didn't want to come to Philadelphia. Being the third-team quarterback is nothing to smile about. Cincinnati and Buffalo were better options." Those two teams wanted him and would've allowed him to start, but after meeting with commissioner Roger Goodell and other reps from the NFL, Vick was convinced—and granted league approval—to sign with Philly. "And I commend and thank them, because they put me in the right situation."

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Deadspin pulled out that section as the most interesting, and I agree. That's called collusion.

Anyway, I disagree that this was a fluff piece. Maybe the Philadelphia magazine piece was a fluff piece, but Leitch more or less stayed out of the opinion business and let Vick speak for himself. It's not a great feature, but it's also not a fluff piece.